herblet
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
herblet (plural herblets)
- A small herb.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- The herbs that have on them cold dew o’ the night
Are strewings fitt’st for graves. Upon their faces.
You were as flowers, now wither’d: even so
These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.
- 1822, Henry Francis Cary (translator), Ode, Book 4, No. 18, by Pierre de Ronsard, The London Magazine, Volume 5, June 1822, p. 510,[1]
- God shield ye, bright embroider’d train
- Of butterflies, that, on the plain,
- Of each sweet herblet sip;
- 1907, Hans Christian Andersen, “Tommelise”, in Caroline Peachey, transl., Danish Fairy Legends and Tales[2], London: George Bell & Sons, pages 194–195:
- […] she dined off the honey from the flowers, and drank from the dew that every morning spangled the leaves and herblets around her.
References edit
- “herblet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.